parties ; and finally with tlie Ooiimiitteo of Westclipster-ioiinty -- each scheme having lieen an imimivenient on tliose whicii liail pieceJod it -- for tilt* (1i8iK)siti(»n oftlie Company, ju«t as Kcheme,s were formed for tlie promotion of pcTsmial inlei ests of Othcers, and jnst as Kniisted Men were trueked and hartered into Uef;iments which were foreign to them, for tlie promotion of those scliemeH, in another service, within the nicmorj' of living men.

1 Jimnud I'/ 1 he Oniiiiiillce o/ Siifiii/, " Die .lovls, 4 ho., P.M., April 2.'), " t77(i."

^ Lilt of OJiiirs' iinmex of NfW Yuri: Troojin, vLi. : C'oliniel Mi'Iii'iii/nI'x Reijititfiil^ -- lli'iti>rU-(ii Ma«?(.swyj/x, etc. : Militiiri/ do-nnniltee, xxv., 488. 3 Ibid.

* anm-al A!<:mntliT I,: Uuhn-I Ynlrs, " Y"N units, 21 October, "177G."

5 Ibid.

^ (leufral MvDontjaV t lirroutitmi'Inti/ni of LU'uU'iuiut-Otilonel Vtm (^n'tlaudt -- UUUtrk-al Ma)imn'ipt\ etc. ; M'dUtmj Ctmuitittrf^ xxv., 845.

* Litt of (tttift'-rs^ wnttcs of Nar York Troojift, viz. : Orlouel MrDntojuVs UfLiimHid. -- llishtrirnl Miiititscrijilfi^ etc. : MiUlarij t 'inntiiillrr^ xxv., 188.

«Ibid.

^ Jimrnnl of thi- Coiimiilln of Siifrli/, "DieSabbati, 10 ho., A.M., April " 27, 1776."

l*> Cornelius Steenrod was the owner of three fulling-mills, if not ot some others; and he aildrcssed "the Convention," without dale, reqiiCHting protection for hia millei'S. -- Conn-liHs Stt-rnrod it> the Onivrnfinn," without place or date -- Juuruuh of the I*rufinciul Coiiyrcas, ii., 147.

and an intimate friend and confidante of Stephen De Lancey, a son of the late distinguished Chief-justice De Lancey, who was also one of the Proprietors and a resident of that Manor," there can be no doubt. He was j^eculiarly anxious to obtain an office, no matter what, nor on what terms ; he was particularly zealous in his desire that he might administer testoaths to his neighbors;'' and it is more than pi-obable that he was, in fact, a " friend of the Government," in disguise, notwithstanding all his official disclaimers.'* He had been in command of one of the skeleton Companies of Minute-men of which the skeleton Regiment of Colonel Samuel Drake had been nominally composed'^ -- it is more than probable that one of those two blank Commissions, for Captains of Companies, which had been issued in advance of the formation of those Companies,'" was held by him ; and it is far from impossible that the men whom he and his Subalterns had evidently on hand, when he applied to the Committee of Safety for admittance into the service of the Continent, in a different Regiment, had been really enlisted for the re-inforcement of the former Regiment, then at Hoern's Hook.